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.TH NCCHECKER 1
.SH NAME
ncchecker \- netCDF Compliance Checker
.SH SYNTAX
ncchecker
[\-d
.IR dbg_lvl ] 
[\-i
.IR drc_in ] 
[\--tests=
.IR tst_lst ]
[\-x] [\-v
.IR var_lst ] 
[\--version ]
.I input-files

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B ncchecker
checks files for compliance with best practices rules and
recommendations from various data and metadata standards bodies.
These include the Climate & Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions
and the NASA Dataset Interoperability Working Group (DIWG)
recommendations. 
It reads 
.I input-files
from
.B stdin,
or the command, performs checks requested in the
.IR tests
option, if any (otherwise it performs all tests), and writes the
results to 
.B stdout.
Some standard
.B NCO
options are supported, including
increasing the verbosity level with
[\-D
.IR dbg_lvl ],
excluding variables with
[\-x]
variable subsetting with
[\-v
.IR var_lst ],
and printing the version with 
[\--version].
The output contains counts of the location and number of failed tests,
or prints "SUCCESS" for tests with no failures.

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.SH AUTHOR
.B NCO
manual pages written by Charlie Zender.

.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <http://sf.net/bugs/?group_id=3331>.

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2023-present Charlie Zender
.br
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B NCO
is maintained as a Texinfo manual called the 
.B NCO Users Guide.
Because 
.B NCO
is mathematical in nature, the documentation includes TeX-intensive
portions not viewable on character-based displays. 
Hence the only complete and authoritative versions of the 
.B NCO Users Guide 
are the PDF (recommended), DVI, and Postscript versions at
<http://nco.sf.net/nco.pdf>, <http://nco.sf.net/nco.dvi>,
and <http://nco.sf.net/nco.ps>, respectively.
HTML and XML versions
are available at <http://nco.sf.net/nco.html> and
<http://nco.sf.net/nco.xml>, respectively.

If the
.B info
and
.B NCO
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info nco
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual, except for the
TeX-intensive portions.

.BR ncap (1), 
.BR ncap2 (1), 
.BR ncatted (1), 
.BR ncbo (1), 
.BR ncclimo (1), 
.BR nces (1), 
.BR ncecat (1), 
.BR ncflint (1), 
.BR ncz2psx (1), 
.BR ncks (1), 
.BR nco (1), 
.BR ncpdq (1), 
.BR ncra (1), 
.BR ncrcat (1), 
.BR ncremap (1), 
.BR ncrename (1), 
.BR ncwa (1) 

.SH HOMEPAGE
The 
.B NCO
homepage at <http://nco.sf.net> contains more information.
